Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1887-04-28
JUDGE MAYES AT TABLE
OUAH.

uer ana anecuOnate.
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JUDGE MAYES AT TABLE
QUAH.
From the general convention OF
delegates ofthe Downing party, on
Fourteen Mile creek, in Tahlequah
district, Judge Mayes visited his
friends at the town of Tahlequah.
He found not a few, but many,
who continually sought his pres
ence for social as much as for po-
litical intercourse. The judge is
in excellent condition, ample in
proportions, courteous, afIable
and accessible to all alike. He
puts on no airs, lofty or otherwise,
nor is he servile in the least in his
manners by reason of his candi-
dacy, but possesses that dignity
and manliness which is nicely
tempered with good common sense,
q kindly consideration for others
and just enough ofthe air Of inde-
pendence TO prove that he is no
political beggar.
While at Tahlequah the Male
Seminary boys, with their cornet
band, headed by Professor Fleish-
er, their teacher, paid the judge
Q deserved compliment. 1t should
he renaenborad that he is an old
Male Seminary student, and that
there is line of mutual concern
and friendship, running through
all the years of that institution S
history, and uniting all the boys.
old and young. into a kind of a
brotherhood, that manhood's
differences and crosses never en-
tirely extinguish. Judge Mayes
is a product Of that old seminary
one of the old ones yet
"--mixed with theboys,"
and is the first among its hundreds
of old students who has been hon
ored with a nomination Tor the
highest Office in the gift of the
people. The conception and COM
pletion Of the institution were
prophetic of this and IN Judge
Mayes are realized its grand pur-
poses to fit and qualify the young
men of our nation for the respon-
sibilities of government. The
seminary's founders were endowed
with wisdom to discover through
the vista of coming years a neces-
sity for education and advance
ment among the people. Expert
ence teaches that rights are res
pected much in accord with the So
cial standard of those who claim
them. Even to-day in the halls
of congress is apparent that diff
ference Of respect that is paid the
rights Of the savage and civilized
Indian. The five nations Of the
Indian Territory are exempted
from the operations of bills that
effect the rights Of other tribes.
This is owing entirely to the ad-
yancement in government and the
acts Of fciyilized life 10 which the
FIVE nations have attained. The
perpeluity and well-being of our
nation rests in our boys, and upon
the outflow Of our seminarios as
much # not more Of these condi-
tions depend, than upon any 9TH
crs. For many years their inhuen-
ccahaye beea at work, and by
hundreds seminary students, male
aud female, can be counted, who
in the private and public walks Of
no are benefactors Of our nation
in creating those conditions that
command respect Of people and
respect Of rights.
Judge Mayes is an old semina-
ry student--one among the first,
and as such addressed his younger
brothers, az an elder one, thank
ing them for the compliment con-
ierred lie reverted in words Of
pleasing reflection TO the days
when no was SEMINARY boy"
and dwelt upon the advantages
tia, he had enjoyed and had been
transmitted 10 them, reminding
llqm u the necessity Of improy-
ink ihelr opportunities.
~ made no allupion to political